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		</div><p>A vicious storm has torn through the western outskirts of a US city, spawning one or more tornadoes that downed trees and power lines, damaged homes and injured at least 12 people.</p>
<p>The storm hit Kansas City in the latest barrage of severe weather that saw tornado warnings as far east as New York City.</p>
<p>Parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey also were under tornado warnings hours after a swarm of tightly-packed twisters swept through Indiana and Ohio overnight, smashing homes and blowing out windows.</p>
<p>One person was killed and at least 130 were injured.</p>
<p>Those storms were among 55 twisters that forecasters said may have touched down on Monday across eight states stretching eastward from Idaho and Colorado.</p>
<p>The past couple of weeks have seen unusually high tornado activity in the US, with no immediate end to the pattern in sight.</p>
<p>Tuesday offered no respite, as a large and dangerous tornado touched down on the western edge of Kansas City, Kansas, late in the day, the National Weather Service office reported.</p>
<p>Twelve people were treated for storm-related injuries at Lawrence Memorial Hospital on Tuesday night, spokeswoman Janice Early said. None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening.</p>
<p>Kansas City International Airport temporarily suspended flights and forced travellers and employees to take shelter in parking garage tunnels for about an hour.</p>
<p>A powerful twister also touched down in the nearby township of Pleasant Grove, Kansas, seriously damaging homes.</p>
<p>But the severe weather was not limited to the Midwest. Tornadoes were confirmed in eastern Pennsylvania and the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for parts of New York City and northern New Jersey.</p>
<p>The winds peeled away roofs, knocked houses off their foundations, toppled trees, brought down power lines and churned up so much debris that it was visible on radar.</p>
<p>Highway crews had to use snowploughs to clear an Ohio interstate.</p>
<p>Some of the heaviest damage was reported just outside Dayton, Ohio.</p>
<p><em>“I just got down on all fours and covered my head with my hands,”</em> said Francis Dutmers, who with his wife headed for the basement of their home in Vandalia, about 10mi outside Dayton, when the storm hit with a “very loud roar” on Monday night.</p>
<p>The winds blew out windows around his house, filled rooms with debris and took down most of his trees.</p>
<p>In Celina, Ohio, 82-year-old Melvin Dale Hanna was killed when a parked car was blown into his house, Mayor Jeffrey Hazel said Tuesday.</p>
<p>“There’s areas that truly look like a war zone,” he said.</p>
<p>Monday marked the record-tying 11th straight day with at least eight tornadoes in the US, said Patrick Marsh, a Storm Prediction Centre meteorologist. The last such stretch was in 1980.</p>
<p>Outbreaks of 50 or more tornadoes are not uncommon, having happened 63 times in US history, with three instances of more than 100 twisters, Mr Marsh said.</p>
<p>But Monday’s swarm was unusual because it happened over a particularly wide geographic area and came amid an especially active stretch, he said.</p>
<p>As for why it’s happening, Mr Marsh said high pressure over the south-east and an unusually cold trough over the Rockies were forcing warm, moist air into the central US, triggering repeated severe thunderstorms and tornadoes.</p>
<p>Scientists say climate change is responsible for more intense and more frequent extreme weather such as storms, droughts, floods and fires, but without extensive study they cannot directly link a single weather event to the changing climate.</p>
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